NOCS NS600 Crush earphones

Designed in Sweden, the NOCS NS600 Crush earphones offer a minimalistic, appealing design with audio to match. The silver earphones, with black trim, won’t capture the eye of a passer-by with bright colours or an overly ambitious design. Rather the bullet-shaped NOCS impress with a simplistic, clean design that calmly announces that it, unlike many recent, outlandish headphone designs, will be stylish for years to come.

The earphones sport two drivers in each earphone, a tweeter and a woofer, that creates a full audio range from high-end to low-end frequencies in what NOCS terms ‘Dual Dynamic technology’. The lower- and mid-levels, however, can be overshadowed by rising, detailed treble tones at mid-range volumes.

At high volumes, the top-end audio can lose its clarity and the bass over-compensates for the diminished mid- tones. The NOCS are in need of a little tweak but are good – for the price – when listening to audio with complex high-end tones such as Radiohead’s Kid A or bass-heavy dance music.